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Whaleback Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s 10th Annual Product of the Year Award
Portsmouth, NH January 4, 2008 — Whaleback Systems announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Whaleback’s CrystalBlue Voice Service as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. This marks the third straight year that Whaleback has garnered this honor.
“We are delighted to be recognized by a leading industry publication for our ground-breaking service that gives small- and medium-sized businesses full-featured telephony services for a low, fixed monthly cost,” said Mark Galvin, Whaleback founder, president, and CEO. “This year Whaleback continued to set industry standards for offering a best-in-class, commercial-grade VoIP service that fully address the needs of the SMB and small enterprise market with a new release of our award-winning CrystalBlue Voice Service called Diamond Shoals.”
“Whaleback Systems has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to their CrystalBlue Voice Service,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. “We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Whaleback Systems in the future.”
The INTERNET TELEPHONY 2007 Product of the Year award was presented to Whaleback to honor the innovation of its 2007 release of CrystalBlue Voice Service. The release, called Diamond Shoals, features advanced QOS and service optimization technologies that extends the capabilities of Whaleback’s managed voice service architecture to address larger mid-market deployments. First launched in February of 2006, Whaleback’s CrystalBlue Voice Service is the first business phone solution built from the ground up for broadband to help SMBs reduce capital and operating costs while taking advantage of full-featured telephony solutions. A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.
Whaleback Systems is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and the pioneering developer of the first business phone solution built from the ground up for broadband. Unlike traditional systems, the Whaleback CrystalBlue Voice Service is 100 percent premises-based and software-driven. It includes the only IP PBX with Key System Unit features and Road Warrior Functionality. Whaleback's all-inclusive, unlimited nationwide calling package makes the most advanced technology immediately affordable for companies that need between 5 and 1,500 phone stations. The Whaleback service is available through partnerships with channel partners and VARs.
About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
